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The Pacific Rim Meme

We always thought alien life would come from the stars. But it came from deep beneath the sea, a portal between dimensions in the Pacific Ocean. Something out there had discovered us. The first Kaiju made landfall in San Francisco. The second attack hit Manilla. Then the third one hit Cabo. Then we learned this was not going to stop. In order to fight monsters, we created monsters of our own. We needed a new weapon. The Jaeger Program was born. Two pilots, our minds, our memories, we were connected. Man and machine became one.

In the near future, giant monsters identified as "Kaiju" have begun attacking Earth's coastal cities, resulting in a war that takes millions of lives and quickly consumes humanity's resources. To combat the monsters, a special type of weapon is designed: massive robots, known as Jaegers. The Jaegers are controlled simultaneously by two pilots who are bound together in a process called Drifting, creating a neural link between their minds. The link lets them share the mental strain which would otherwise overwhelm a single pilot. The Jaegers are the last, best hope for humanity's survival.

Instructions:
1.Choose a role (or multiple roles!) and post with your character/fandom.
2. Others will post to you with a scenario.
3. All Jaeger names must made up of two words that have little to do with each other. This is mandatory.
4. Go big or go extinct. Or just have fun, that works too.

Roles:

1. Jaeger Pilot: The rock stars of the kaiju wars. You and your partner may be siblings, spouses, parent and child, or just two people who have the trust and compatability necessary for a successful Drift. Get out there and kick some ass.

2. Engineer: The war against the kaiju isn't just fought by the pilots. You're one of the countless support staff that design, repair, and enhance the Jaegers for maximum kaiju-smashing potential.

3. Scientist: Biologist, physicist, kaiju groupie. You study these horrific monsters so you can figure out how to destroy them...or you just really have a thing for alien anatomy.

4. Mission Control: Off the front lines but not out of the battle. You're watching the monitors, dealing out the orders, and generally making sure your Jaeger pilots don't do anything more stupid than normal.

5. Civilian: A black market dealer in kaiju organs, a reporter trying to get her big scoop, or just some poor schmuck trying not to get stepped on. You're one of the folks that the Jaegers are fighting for.

6. Other: Go wild.

Scenarios:

1. Preparations: Dealing with kaiju is a process, not a moment. Pilots need to physically and mentally hone their strength, engineers need to perfect the Jaeger weaponry and armor, scientists need to run their experiments, and black market dealers need to make their money.

2. First Neural Handshake: It's time to Drift with your partner. You'll experience each others' most painful secrets, joyous memories, and the time you got drunk and made out with the captain of the football team. Hang on, it'll be a bumpy ride.

3. Downtime: Chill out, have a beer, pretend the world isn't ending. You can explore the thriving towns that have grown up amongst the kaiju remains or just stay in the Shatterdome doing combat practice. However you relax, you've earned it.

4. Kaiju Detected: Battle stations, folks. Get to your cockpit, your command post, or your underground bunker. The monsters are coming, and they ain't gonna stop until someone does something about them.

5. Combat Mode: It's go time! You're in the heat of things, punching these otherworldly abominations in the face with your awesome. Remember to call your attacks; it makes them more powerful if you shout their names first.

5. Aftermath: Job well done, folks. Sit back, enjoy the celebrations, put another tick mark on your kill count...and if necessary, mourn the dead.

6. Other: Go further wild.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Doctor, either Civilian or PPDC, whichever, y'all need a medic.]

[Old Reginald was one of the originators of the Jaeger tech, specifically the neural handshake upgrades, and figured if the PPDC wasn't going to do enough, it was up to him, collecting children orphaned by the Kaiju and setting up his own Shatterdome to train them.
Klaus is one of those, most compatible with his siblings, of course, but whatever, if you've got an idea LMK, I'll roll with most anything.]

[Mechanic/engineer. She studies the Kaiju to better outfit the Jaegers against known defenses/offenses. Also: she lost her family in a Kaiju attack when she was young & hasn't talked since, but has something of a 6th sense for incoming Kaiju activity.]

[One of the second run of pilots, when they first started with the two-pilot system. He is technically retired, as his copilot bailed and broke the neural handshake the first time they had a deployment. He works command center and LOCCENT these days, dreading -and likewise hoping for- the day he gets called up to pilot again.]

[Scavenger & civilian engineer/mechanic]

[Retired pilot, now works as a mechanic. He has a knack for knowing/spotting the weak points on any new Kaiju to emerge.]

[He's the guy who ousted the resident gang kingpin and bone collector. He's picked up some of the same business partnerships, but not all of them, and he's becoming known as a fair boss and a reasonable guy to work for by anyone put out by the previous guy or by the government.]

[Civilian, mechanic, enforcer for a black-market kaiju-parts dealer, you name it, he's probably done it.]

[Engineer, maybe command center - used to be prisoner of a Bone Collector, still more than a little jumpy due to the experience]

[Son of a bone-collector, managed to get away and join the academy thanks to getting separated during a kaiju attack. He did, unfortunately wash out of the pilot academy due to 'anger issues', which is to say he defended another kid from the slums like himself from one of the nepo babies and got blacklisted for it.
Or, rather, got shuffled off into an engineering and repair position at the local dome, because as it turns out he's a damn good mechanic. He could definitely pilot, though, if given the chance.]

[Civilian of sorts, her father was a pilot, she may be a potential pilot, but she mostly just gets by reselling parts -Kaiju and mechanical alike- and possibly runs a Church of the Kaiju on the side]

[World's Shortest Jaeger??? An avatar of one? Or an A.I. invented for assisting at base? Whatever, we ball.]

[ooc; I'm down for whatever. Pilot, engineer, mechanic, mission control, civilian! ]

[Either she's designed as an artificial drift partner/AI assistant, now turned sapient and uncooperative, or we go with a human AU where she was a pilot herself. Either way things went badly awry thanks to her original partner proving to be a manipulative traitor using her and the jaeger program for his own ends. Depending on the scenario, she may have gone fully rogue or have been sidelined into a support role she badly wants to escape.]

[Was a pilot in the early days of the Program, now a mechanic after losing his copilot in action]

[Mission Control who was once a pilot with his older brother who had no desire to drift again with anyone else once his brother died.]

( ooc: pilot. )

[How this works with a non-human is anyone's guess, but fuck it we ball. Most likely a pilot, absolutely willing to do Drift shenanigans, etc.]

Edited (clarification) 2025-02-24 02:49 (UTC)

[ veteran pilot who keeps losing his established drift partners and soldiering on anyway because who else if not him. (i could probably work him into being a grumpy mathematician if you really want me to though)! OTA gen, 25+ for shipping. ]

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